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PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 15A

15A .         Disapplication of State occupational safety and health laws

        (1)         The prescribed occupational safety and health laws do not apply in relation to —

            (a)         a facility; or

            (b)         a person at a facility; or

            (c)         a person near a facility, to the extent to which the person is affected by —

                  (i)         a facility; or

                  (ii)         activities that take place at a facility;

                or

            (d)         activities that take place at a facility.

        (2)         A reference in subsection (1) to the prescribed occupational safety and health laws is a reference to such of the provisions of those laws that, but for subsection (1), would apply in the adjacent area under the Off-shore (Application of Laws) Act 1982 or the cooperative scheme as defined by section 3 of the Crimes at Sea Act 2000.

        (3)         In this section —

        prescribed occupational safety and health laws means any laws of the State relating to occupational safety and health (whether or not they also relate to other matters) that are prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

        (4)         This section applies despite anything to the contrary in the Off-shore (Application of Laws) Act 1982 or the Crimes at Sea Act 2000.

        [Section 15A inserted by No. 13 of 2005 s. 36.]



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